Art exhibition of an academic painter Suzana Stojadinovic planned to take place last night at the Faculty of Arts in Mitrovica North has been cancelled, because the artist was not allowed to bring her paintings to Kosovo at the Jarinje crossing point, Kosovo-online portal reports.

In a statement to the portal Stojadinovic said she was appalled by what she has experienced at the Jarinje crossing point.

Belgrade based news agency Beta reported that the new academic year started on Tuesday on all ten faculties of the former Pristina University, relocated in the north Mitrovica with over 1,100 Serb freshmen financed by Belgrade, the Beta news agency reported.

Serbia’s Ministry of Education has declared the 2019-2020 academic year as the year of free entry, which means that the education of all those entitled to enroll will be paid for from Serbia’s budget.

Deputy leader of Civic Initiative Freedom, Democracy, Justice (GI SDP) and close associate of Oliver Ivanovic, Ksenija Bozovic received on Monday the third summons for a witness questioning in the case of the murder of SDP leader, Oliver Ivanovic, KoSSev portal reports.

Bozovic confirmed to KoSev that she will respond to the summons, stressing that this summons like all those sent to the associates of the murdered Ivanovic comes in a strange moment. GI SDP also perceived this as a pressure ahead of the upcoming Kosovo elections, scheduled to take part on October 6.

Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director Marko Djuric told RTS this morning that the latest incident in Mitrovica North in which an underage boy was injured indicates that the brutal attacks against the Serbs continue. He also warned that the violence against the Serbs must be immediately and the most severely sanctioned.

Serbian young man who was stabbed when assaulted by the group of Albanians is presently stable and feels fine.

Milan Ivanovic, CEO of North Mitrovica Health Center told Tanjug.

"After being stabbed in the left lumbar region and lower chest, he was urgently operated due to heavy bleeding. The bleeding has stopped, and he is now in intensive care unit", Ivanovic told Tanjug news agency.

The stabbing of a young boy in Mitrovica North is beyond doubts an inter-ethnic incident and those responsible for this cowardly attack should be urgently brought before the justice, Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director Marko Djurc said, BETA news agency reports.

This is yet another in a series of attacks against Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija, aiming to intimidate them, and we are also convinced it is about politically inspired event, Office for Kosovo and Metohija said in a statement.

Srpska Lista Chair Goran Rakic has reacted to the stabbing of a young Serb boy in Mitrovica North, Kosovo-online portal reports.

“Cowardly assault on underage Serbian boy D.B. by a group of Albanian hooligans who came to the northern part of Mitrovica from the southern part of the city is absolutely unacceptable, illegal and shameful,” Mitrovica North Mayor Goran Rakic has said last night.

Radio kontakt plus conducted interviews with Mitrovica North residents to hear their stances on the current situation in the northern Kosvo, where all shops, restaurants, pharmacies, petrol stations and market remain closed for the second consecutive day.

“These are tricks by both Belgrade and Pristina. And we shall see who will get the profit. What about workers, what about people, what about goods and who will pay for the goods if they get rotted. What about farmers who have their products but cannot sell them? Shame,” one of the citizens said.

Kossev porta reports that a visit of the director of the KiM Office, Marko Djuric, has been announced for today. Djuric previously himself announced to the Serbian media the opening of the water supply system in the North Kosovo.

Kossev reports as the latest news that Djuric is in Zubin Potok.

The introduction of 100 percent tariffs on goods from central Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina over the last seven months, as well as shortage of basic commodities in the north of Kosovo over the last couple of days affect the work of the Hospital Centre in Mitrovica North, Director of the Center Milan Ivanovic said, Radio KIM reports.